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On and off, from 2016 to 2019, I regularly (when I was in Idaho) practiced long hours of Bagua circle walking around a specific tree in Settler's Park, Meridian, Idaho. Here we are, four years later, and the circle I walked still shows up.
Looks like a crop circle...
"Eight Attacks of the Bear" is an intermediate set of Vimana Varja Baguazhang, which develops full-body shocking and jarring effects through explosive short-power attacks, jamming, and sudden redirection of forces. Building off the unrelenting and primarily linear-based attacks of Lion's pure yang energy, the Eight Attacks of the Bear introduces attacks of heavy, sinking, and collapsing yin-style power paired with a yang mindset and attitude.
Bear expresses Gen, or the Mountain gua, of the I-Ching. The Eight Attacks of the Bear set teaches heavy-handed offense and defense methods. Bear seeks to concuss and rattle the attacker with careening shots from jagged upward and downward angles. Other tactics include jamming the opponent's attacks by aggressively occupying their space, projecting them backward with braced force as a bird crashes into a window, and a defense that redirects attacks but also sucks energy in, pulverizes it like a woodchipper.
The Eight Attacks of the Bear is a natural progression from any beginner-level set. Adding a measure complexity with skills like redirection and utilizing the whole body for explosive short power. Bear also teaches rooting and sinking to crush or collapse into an opponent, smothering or disrupting them.
The Eight Attacks of the Bear can be applied to circle walking or performed as line drills. Each "turnaround" is rooted and powerful, exceptionally suited for counter-attacking and offensively-minded defense. Each attack is meant to be drilled and repeated ad nausea. The footwork of the Bear is heavy and sinking, with rolling and crushing actions for stepping.
Eight Attacks of the Bear
Eight Attacks of the Bear emphasizes the qualities of endurance and holding one's space. Becoming firmly rooted in core beliefs and not easily bullied or swayed physically or ideologically. A Mountain doesn't attack but instead responds to attempts at conquering it. Performing the Eight Attacks of the Bear requires the individual to relax into their own being and sink into the essence of who they authentically are, collapsing false and outdated modalities. From this, true inner strength and proper alignment will naturally occur.
Regular practice of this set strengthens the entire body, exercising the fascia, tendons, and connective tissues while loosening the neck, shoulders, spine, and hips. Bear energy cultivates a sense of inner calm, allowing you to maintain your composure and make calculated decisions even when chaos surrounds you.
Highly versatile and comprised of eight minimalist and spartan "turnarounds," Eight Attacks of the Lion can be applied to circle walking or performed as line drills. Each "turnaround" is direct and simplistic, focused nearly exclusively on attacking and offensive strategies common to the "Lion." Each attack is meant to be drilled and repeated ad nausea. The footwork of the lion is heavy and springy, with stabbing and sything actions for stepping.
The Eight Attack of the Lion
Eight Attacks of the Lion integrates bold action and fearlessness in the practitioner as well as total body strength, internal and external, greater endurance, and practical body durability, which fortifies the mind, spirit, and body while weaponizing and unifying the individual's many bodies (physical and non-physical) for the potential of combat.
The "Directed Energy" turn-around is the "Single Palm" change of my Vimana Vajra Baguazhang's "Eight Mothership" palms foundational set. Exceptionally "yang" in nature, meaning aggressive and straight to the point, the Directed Energy turn-around features a triple palm strike employing the same hand, utilizing the three shapes most responsible for all the death, damage, and destruction by palm strikes in human history.
In addition to serving as a platform for launching the mind, body, and spirit into a weaponization process, Directed Energy turn-around teaches the practitioner how to direct their energy to a singular focus point, maintain it even while altering its trajectory, and toggle between right and left sides of the body. This training keeps the practitioner's mind and body active even when they appear static.
The applications are great, and many not just for a martial artist but for anyone developing any practice where directing energy and intent into and out the hand is essential—Paramount for all energy workers (Reiki), body workers, massage therapists, healing touch, etc.
Overtly offensive, Directed Energy turn-around does impart less obvious defensive capabilities. Like the jab and the straight of Western Boxing, its linear approach will often beat the opponent to the punch, especially if there is any hint of circularity in the opponent's attack (and there nearly always is). Also, Direct Energy is well suited for limb destruction, attacking the attack, and emphasizing that the best defense is often a great offense.
Psychologically the Directed Energy turn-around integrates bold action and calculated fearlessness into the practitioner. Act like prey and get treated like prey (yes, there are purposeful modalities of "cat and mouse" and times when you can entrap others by assuming a strategic "victim stance," but these are specialized maneuvers and not typically part of one's day-to-day). Directed Energy turn-around implants a hunter's instincts. Instincts that steadily cross over from Bagauzhang practice into one's everyday outlook and attitude.
Lastly, from a Daoist perspective, regular practice of the Directed Energy turn-around energizes the whole of a person's being with purified yang energy, removes stagnation, increases circulation, stimulates mental and psychic energy, strengthens concentration, and sharpens focus while reducing cowardliness, procrastination, and indecisiveness.
-Kevin Wikse
Birthed from the Fire Gua or Trigram of the I-Ching, Rooster Shape Baguzhang is an animistic personification of fire. Explosive, quick, and always moving, the action of the Rooster is that of a flame's ability to leap to new and nearby sources of fuel. The Rooster hops and struts like the pops and snaps of a long string of firecrackers; each step and movement of the Rooster is sharp, fast, and powerful.
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The Fire Gua or Trigram of the I-Ching is drawn as two unbroken yang lines, top and bottom, with a split ying line sandwiched between them, which denotes the idea that fire possesses qualities of circling and clinging, spiraling around and engulfing its fuel sources. Even while expanding outward, the fire's primary movement is upward (if only to generate power for the downward).
The Rooster is the same, utilizing rapid spiral stepping, launching kicks, knees, palm strikes, palm/backhand whips (mimicking a rooster's wings flapping), slicing elbows, and chopping strikes up and down the attacker's center line with a machine gun rapidity. Rooster overtakes its opponents, similar to how something catches fire. When introducing a new fuel source to the flame, it clings and spreads quickly, devouring it. The Rooster shape sticks to and follows the attacker with a barrage of offense. The opponent is forced into a defensive strategy, more worried about their survival than fighting back.
The Rooster's upward attacks take full advantage of the spaces in an attacker's defense as they defensively cover-up, attempting to protect themselves. The Rooster strategy likes to leap and hop from opening to opening. An onslaught of attacks from the Rooster has the attacker desperately defending their head, leaving their knees or torso exposed and vulnerable. The Rooster's leaps and hops are for distance control and crushing the opponent's foot and toes. Everything is a valid target for the Rooster. As such, it excels in limb destruction and close-range savagery.
The energy of Rooster is akin to Muay Thai. I have been told this by Muay Thai fighters whose faces I've cut open with Rooster Shape's elbows and found themselves being dominated by Rooster's clinching scheme, which is as ruthless and sophisticated as theirs but free from the parameters of "sport" they have imbued themselves with.
The Rooster Shape of my Baguazhang is a violent but beautiful expression of martial animism merging with the elemental for humans to embody. The dedicated practice of the Rooster Shape promotes full body endurance and improves overall conditioning. The movements stretch and tone the tendons and muscles, which run primarily along the heart meridian, improving blood circulation and cardio function. The hops and leaps improve balance, leg strength, and coordination and strengthen the feet while ridding the body of excess fluids, reducing inflammation and swelling.
Energetically the Rooster builds confidence, stoking the force of will to start projects and seek opportunities. Shamanic/Daoist belief is that practicing the Rooster boosts one's "yang" energy, producing an aura of self-promotion and increasing personal magnetism. This spiritual influence leads to periods of peace and prolonged. Prosperity due to the influx of new friends and opportunities. Peace because most negative entities know the Rooster is extremely ferocious and want to avoid you.
I plan to make my Baguazhang available to the public very soon. I look forward to introducing the complete system of Rooster Shape Baguazhang and sharing with you all the immense benefits its practice has blessed me with.
-Kevin Wikse
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Chan Pan Ling's Yang Energy Dragon Shape Baguazhang is an intermediate-level school of martial Baguazhang that emphasizes the explosive, consuming, and constantly-moving qualities of fire while developing to coiling, raising, and aggressive nature inherent within the Dragon Shape as expressed by the Thunder Gua or Trigram of the I-Ching.
Violent and abrupt, the Dragon of this Baguazhang set enjoys sudden force expressions while evading, deflecting, and redirecting. The Dragon is strong and spring-like, like a steel whip. The Yang energy is sharp, disruptive, and punishing.
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In my teachings of Daoist metaphysics, this set constitutes Fire over Thunder in the I-Ching, or Hexagram #21. It denotes a sense of being wronged and seeking justice. The Hexagram (six lines, the top, bottom, and third down lines are unbroken yang lines) illustrates a structured environment with a free energy flow from bottom to top. However, there is a disruption in that flow. This is seen as a divider between upper and lower, or stronger and weaker, signifying a defect in the system and preventing fair treatment of all. This division must be destroyed if harmony is to exist.
This Hexagram is called "Biting Through," and the martial prowess developed by the dedicated practice of this school of Baguazhang will split apart and puncture through enemies of your peace and harmony.
A certain level of intolerance and anger accompanies this set of Baguazhang. The Dragon hates evil, actively hunting it down and eradicating it at the source. The mindset is that of righteous wrathfulness. It produces a psychic practice of internal alchemy, slowly and methodically changing the practitioner's personality just ever so slightly, just enough to enable them to understand the power of discrimination and how to apply that in severing influences, internal as well as external, that do not serve the good of the self nor society. Cutting cancer out.
At one point in my life, I was employed to do physical violence against certain people. I used the training techniques and fighting strategies contained school of Chan Pan Ling's Yang Dragon Shape Baguazhang to obliterate the arm and legs, ripping open their defenses. Known for its "heart penetrating palm," as Hexagram #21's title "Biting Through" suggests, this school of Baguazhang is exceptionally well suited for limb destruction, breaking bones, and deep piercing strikes.
From a training perspective, circle walking in the Dragon body shape is invigorating. The Dragon Shape promotes full body strength, endurance, and durability. Increases in leg, upper back, and hand strength are particularly noteworthy. Training the Dragon shape prepares the entire body for combat. In addition, the waist and torso undergo a soft and internal form of Iron Body or Iron Vest condition.
I plan to teach this school of Baguazhang publicly soon and share with others the same benefits and boons dedicated practice of this set brought and continues to bring to me.
-Kevin Wikse.
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Vimana Vajra Baguazhang is the crown jewel of over thirty years of accumulated martial and esoteric knowledge, spit-polished with sweat and literal blood to a brilliant finish. After thousands of hours walking the circle and spiraling line drills, singular focus of just one expression of energy for hundreds of thousands of repetitions, and continuous refinement of both high-level qigong and internal alchemical practices, the school of Vimana Vajra Baguazhang was born as if hatched from a dragon's egg.
As a martial art, it is genuinely formidable and exceptionally competent for self-preservation. Its origins start with the Hop Sing Tong, who ran Hong Kong and Singapore streets in the early 1900s gang wars and came to run Sacramento and Los Angeles, passing on their specialized version of South Dragon to me. Latter, Xingyiquan, Yiquan, Lama Pai, Tall Monkey, Stone Monkey, Lost Monkey, Chu Gar or Southern Mantis (Southern Dragon with a more petite frame), and what I consider the super-powered granddaddy of martial arts, Vajramushti, came to influence my Baguazhang practice which included the following Baguazhang sets.
Sun Lu Tang Eight Animals.
Wang Shu Jin.
Sea Serpent Set.
Swimming Dragon Set.
Dragon Heart Palm Set.
In 2009 I started working for an organization that sought to neutralize paid foreign mercenaries and provocateurs, recruiting and radicalizing the disenfranchised youth in America for a sleeper army of Domestic but offshore-funded terrorists. Until the organization's disbanding in 2018, Antifa and BLM's street-level organizers and leadership were regularly nullified. During this time, I validated my training. I refined my strategies by obliterating the Krav-Maga/BJJ/MMA combined combatives adopted by the opposition in the ways that count and matter.
My Baguazhang also helped crush a CIA (as I predicted) aligned pro-pedophilia Satanically aligned Neo-Nazi (with communistic ideations, go figure) black magic" lodge" used for the recruitment of patsies for state-sponsored terrorism for Political agendas via Operation NORTHWOODS. The number of Federal agents identified as the upper-level leaders of this group during the associated criminal investigations that followed was genuinely disturbing. I have talked at length and been highly public about my experiences and findings regarding this situation.
Nowadays, for me, martial skill and prowess, while forever essential, are secondary and more a byproduct of the Esotericism contained within Baguazhang.
2020 happened because the street-level leadership and organizers weren't disappearing, and they could finally amass and steer a horde of mentally ill, unhinged idiots.
Vimana Vajra Baguazhang could not have been possible without the direct intervention of an associate who opened the door to Vajramushti. His practice of Vajramushti embodies Lord Indra wielding the Vajra or Thunderbolt in battle, riding atop his five-trunked war elephant, Arivati, invoking in me a similar feeling of Thor demonstrating his unparalleled skill with Mjolnir, charging into battle on his chariot pulled by his Aries-born Goats, Gap-Tooth, and Tooth-Grinder. Also, a powerful Tantrik, who authentically ignited my Kundalini energy system by transmitting to me a secret Tantra, a spiritual refinement, hinted at in the Vimanika Shastra, divulging to me the complete cipher to understanding it.
Baguazhang practice is constructing the Vimana, the divine vehicle, unifying all energy bodies and integrating, as it purifies, all elemental energies. The crystalization of the soul, using the mobile bio-electrical-alchemical laboratory, called the human body as both its flask and crucible for this great work of spiritual transmutation. My Vimana Tantra and Vimana Vajra Baguazhang are fueled by the Bhakti and Shakti of Lord Shiva, Lord Adhyantha Prabhu (the conjoining of Lord Ganesh and Lord Hanuman) Lord Garuda, Lord Naga Raja, and a deep emersion into the Pancha Tattwas and Tattwa Shuddi of the Five Elements, the Eight trigrams of Daoism, and a connection to the Tree of Life that only the highest level Western Occultist could begin to grasp at.
I will soon launch access to my school, Vimana Vajra Baguazhang, and establish a physical school for Vimana Vajra Baguazhang and Vimana Shastra Tantra Sooksm Ka.
-Kevin Wikse
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